Little Rock Political News

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom that matches their gender identity, the first of several states expected to enact such bans this year...

Producers Rice Mill will have a new solar storage microgrid developed by Scenic Hill Solar and it will be a record-breaking. The groups announced the project on Tuesday (March 21), but a timetable to complete the microgrid and price tag were not released. The...

Arkansas’ travel and tourism sector posted healthy revenue and job gains in 2022 compared with 2021, even when factoring in inflation. The state’s 2% tourism tax set a new record in 2022. Arkansas’ 2% tourism tax revenue in 2022 was $24.049 million, up 17%...

It was a happenstance meeting between Derek Campbell and Griffin Hanna during a beer tasting at Papa’s Pup & Pizzeria in downtown Fort Smith that an idea was born to open a new cocktail and taproom in the Bakery District. The Bakery District, also in...

TikTok on Tuesday unveiled its updated community guidelines, which the company says will focus on improving content moderation on the platform. Some of the key changes include updating the company’s rules on how it evaluates content created or altered by AI...

Little Rock U Storage LLC, registered to Rory Thompson of Conway, is the new owner of I-630 Business Park, an office/self-storage facility at 1200 John Barrow Road in Little Rock. According to a news release from commercial real estate firm Colliers Arkansas,...

Starting next year, John Anderson will be in a position to provide strategic guidance to the Southern Agriculture Economics Association, an organization he says has helped shape him professionally for more than two decades. He has been elected the...

So far, a new mixed-use commercial development along Interstate 49 in Rogers has zeroed in on North Carolina for its restaurant tenants. Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar has signed a lease agreement at Pinnacle Springs, an 80,498-square-foot mixed-use...

City Administrator Carl Geffken announced Monday (March 20) Boyd Waters as the next Fire Chief of the Fort Smith Fire Department. Waters has served as the interim chief since Fire Chief Phil Christensen died Feb. 11 after a nine-month battle with cancer. “This...